[mdlug] APC UPS advice

[David Lee Lambert]

I got a new toy today:  an APC "Back-UPS XS 900" UPS (model BX900R).  I 
plugged it in for the initial battery-charge an hour or two ago... only 18 
hours left.

It came with a USB interface cable (usb on one end,  RJ-45 on the other;  the 
RJ-45 jack fits into the UPS).  I tried plugging it into the server I'll be 
running off it and installing the Debian "nut" and "nut-usb" packages.  
However,  "lsusb" doesn't show any new devices,  even after "modprobe usbhid" 
and "modprobe usb-serial".  (I know the USB card is working because I have a 
thumb drive plugged into it;  I'm using part of said thumb drive as a swap 
partition.)

Kernel 2.6.14.5.

Is there some setting I need to tweak to get this cable to work?  Should I 
just give up and try a serial cable instead?  Does the cable not work until 
the UPS is fully charged?

-- 
David Lee Lambert ... Software Developer
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